EUGENE, Ore. — For much of the last year Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record-holder in the 400-meter hurdles, has left the track and field world wondering what her potential could be over the same distance without the hurdles in her way.
On Saturday at the U.S. track and field championships McLaughlin-Levrone offered a definitive answer — yet another American record is now within her reach.
In the final of the women's 400, McLaughlin-Levrone, who trains in Los Angeles under coach Bobby Kersee, won in 48.74 seconds to clock history's 10th-fastest time — just behind Sanya Richards-Ross' U.S. record of 48.70 set in 2006.
